The Technological Transformation of Japan
Subtitle: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521414630
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Impact of science & technology on society; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Social aspects; Technology And Social Change; History - General History; History: World; Japan; Technological innovations; Asia - Japan; General; History / Renaissance; History; Technology
First sentence: In the years between 1811 and 1816, the weaving towns of central England experienced a new and (from the factory owners' point of view) alarming form of social unrest.